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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Online conceptual/tutorial material for Ada, was: Re: specification
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Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 17:06:11 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-10-05, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> wrote:
> Stribor40 <ikamzic@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> generic
>>   type myType is array (1 ..N-1) of String (1..N);
>>   N : Integer;
>>  
>> package myPackage is
>>      function tt (a : in String) return myType;
>> end Neighbours;
>
> Try
>
> generic
>    N : Integer;
> package myPackage is
>    type myType is array (1 ..N-1) of String (1..N);
>    function tt (a : in String) return myType;
> end myPackage;

At this point, I wonder if there are some good online tutorials which
cover the basic Ada concepts which we could point Stribor40 to ?

I'm thinking maybe something which _isn't_ a full book length but
manages to cover the basic Ada concepts in a coherent manner and links
them all together.

The kind of thing I'm thinking of is maybe something like Ada Distilled.

Any comments ?

Simon.

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